Happy Cow Creamery is a fun little excursion if you happen to find yourself between Greenwood and Greenville, South Carolina. It’s a locally-owned dairy with an on-the-farm milk bottling plant that’s open to the public. You can bring your kids … Continued
The Poinsett Bridge is a relic of a bygone era when traveling across mountain ranges took weeks rather than hours. Poinsett Bridge is the oldest bridge in South Carolina and perhaps in the entire southeastern United States. Named for Joel … Continued
There’s a free event just outside of Cashiers, North Carolina every February called the Great Sapphire Valley Resort Outhouse Races. The race is a charity event to benefit the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society. Local clubs and businesses build outhouses on skis … Continued
Stumphouse Tunnel has an interesting history. The tunnel was first proposed in 1835 by residents of Charleston, South Carolina as a new and shorter route for the Blue Ridge Railroad between Charleston and the Ohio river valley area which until … Continued
Rocky Broad Riverwalk is a tourist attraction in the shadow of Chimney Rock in North Carolina. It’s right off of Hwy 74 between Lake Lure and the Hwy 64 junction. It’s basically just a path along the boulders in the … Continued
Hagood Mill is a historic site in Pickens, South Carolina. It’s an authentic slice of Americana and makes a great day trip. One of the finest regional examples of nineteenth-century technology can be found just three miles north of Pickens, … Continued
Bubbling Spring Branch Cascades is a waterfall right off of Highway 215 in Pisgah National Forest. It’s about a mile and a half north of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, close to Bubbling Spring Branch Falls and Wildcat … Continued